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Definition of Carduus
1. Noun. Genus of annual or perennial Old World prickly thistles.
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Aster Family, Asteraceae, Compositae, Family Asteraceae, Family Compositae
Member holonyms: Carduus Crispus, Welted Thistle, Carduus Nutans, Musk Thistle, Nodding Thistle
Definition of Carduus
1. a thistle [n -ES] - See also: thistle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carduus
Literary usage of Carduus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1916)
"SHORTER NOTES Is Carduus UNDULATUS NUTT. FOUND IN COLORADO? When, a number of
years ago, I began collecting botanical specimens in Colorado, and later began ..."
2. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1856)
"There is, however, this difference among these plants, that some of them have
numerous stems and branches, such as the carduus, for instance ; while others, ..."
3. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"(Carduus Nutt.; Cnicus Gray.) — Islands of L. Huron to Mich., la., Kan., and westw.
June-Oct. Var. ..."
4. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential ...by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1810)
"Carduus nutans. Linn. Sp. Pi . 1150. Sm. Fl. £«/.848. Hudf. 350. ... Carduus which
remains to be ..."
5. Hortus Kewensis; Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal by William Aiton (1814)
"Carduus syriacus. Ed. pr. í A palustris, marsh. Carduus palustris. Ed. pr.
lanceolatus, spear. ... 1633 Carduus canus. Ed. pr. monspessulanus,Montpelier. ..."
6. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes by Robert Burton (1836)
"To purge and purify the blood, use sowthistle, succory, sena, endive, carduus
benedictus, dandelion, hop, maidenhair, ..."
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